Amid false testimony, sham trials, denials and cursing - Jesus remained silent. Understood rightly, his silence sounds like grace. 23-03-2025 - Lucas Durant

How can we understand Jesus' deep and sudden sorrow in Gethsemane? It is a foretaste of the cup of God's wrath that he would soon drink for us. And knowing exactly what it would cost him, he went through with it. 16-03-2025 - Lucas Durant

Jesus uses the passover meal to give us an interpretive grid for his death. Christ's death is the source of salvation and the the centre of salvation history. 09-03-2025 - Lucas Durant

What is Jesus worth? Some will calculate his worth according to whether he helps or hinders their goals. Love ends calculations. 02-03-2025 - Lucas Durant

When the end of all things comes, and Jesus Christ returns, what should we expect? The judgement of all people. If all will be judged, then it is important to know who will judge and what his criteria will be. 23-02-2025 - Lucas Durant

Christ will return, the end will come... but how should that shape our priorities in the present. Jesus' parable of the talents explains how best to invest our present labours in light of the end. 16-02-2025 - Lucas Durant

Christ will come again and bring the world as we know it to a sudden, unexpected, cataclysmic end. No one knows when. So, keep watch and be ready. 9-02-2025 - Lucas Durant

It's the end of the world as we know it... or is it? The disciples heard news that made them think that everything was collapsing, but Jesus' instruction was "stand firm". Let's take him at his word. 02-02-2025 - Lucas Durant

In his inaugural sermon among his home congregation, Jesus preached good news for the poor. The initial response was delight, but quickly shifted to violent outrage. 26-01-2025 - Lucas Durant

Jesus' first miraculous sign was turning water into wine. This can be seen as a foreshadowing of the pattern of his entire ministry. As we examine this sign, we see three essential aspects of what Jesus came to do - remove shame, transform lack, reveal glory. 19-01-2025 - Lucas Durant

Epiphany is the time of year when Christians celebrate the revelations concerning Jesus' unique glory. The Magi were some of the first to have receive such an epiphany. God rearranged the heavens to bring them near, he spoke to them through the scriptures to make it clear, and coming into his presence his glory appeared. 05-01-2025 - Lucas Durant…

Happy New Year! But what does that mean? Where does blessing come from, what is it, and how can we receive it? 29-12-2024 - Lucas Durant

Christmas is the antidote to all our anxieties. In the first Christmas song, sung by Mary, we learn how we can go on singing. 15-12-2024 - Lucas Durant

In the midst of what seems like chaos, God has a plan. Far from making us passive, God tells us his plan in order to call us to live by faith in Him. Faith in God's plan gives us ultimate hope in the face of every trial. 08-12-2024 - Lucas Durant

Evil should make us angry. But when does righteous anger crossover into unrighteousness? When wicked behaviour is dealt with wickedly, how does God respond? 01-12-2024 - Friedemann Barinske

God says we need to be changed into the image of His Son. But most of us hate change. How does God accomplish his work? He wrestles us. 24-11-2024 - Lucas Durant

There are many ways that people try to secure blessings for themselves. But there is ultimately only one source from which all blessings flow. 17-11-2024 - Lucas Durant

Though the LORD can radically heal and restore a person's life, the cause and effect consequences of sin normally knock on long after repentance and conversion. Why does the LORD allow those difficulties to continue? Laban's Deception and Leah's Disappointment show us that it is the LORD's Discipline for our good. 10-11-2024 - Lucas Durant…

This episode in Jacob's life is profoundly encouraging. It shows us that God is not distant. His power is actively shaping directing world and his presence is intimately close to his people. Jesus Christ is the connection between heaven and earth. 03-11-2024 - Lucas Durant

This ranks as one of the most dramatic stories in the Bible. The characters each have their own aims and they will stop at nothing to achieve them. But while each person sinfully pursues their own goals, God achieves his purpose. God cannot be stopped. 27-10-2024 - Lucas Durant

How do we explain the difference between those who embrace the Christian faith and those who reject it? Do people become Christians because they are more moral, more clever or better in some way? The story of Jacob and Esau powerfully dismantles that idea. God's saving purposes in the world are advanced by his sovereign election. 24-10-2024 - Lucas…

Christians are motivated by God's grace to give generously. Yet even when we are motivated to give, we must still determine how to give. Paul's instruction to the Corinthians helps us to invest our resources wisely, trusting God to produce a harvest. 13-10-2024 - Lucas Durant

According to the scriptures, the way we use our money can tell us a great deal about the condition of our hearts. A heart that has been changed by God's generous grace is revealed in generosity. This section of 2 Corinthians gives us a model for what a healthy heart looks like and a prescription for bringing our hearts to full health. 06-10-2024 - …

The hospitality of Christian people has been one of the most powerful tools that God has used to advance the gospel and change the world. God still works through this sacramental means. When we show hospitality to strangers, we may be entertaining angels without knowing it. 29-09-2024 - Lucas Durant

Humanity is rife with divisions. False worship retells human stories and reinforces those divisions. Biblical worship reveals reality from God's perspective and invites us to participate in God's story. True worship must shape the whole life of a Christian. 22-09-2024 - Lucas Durant

Hospitality, according to the Bible's use of the word, means "love for strangers", and it was primarily shown by welcoming weary people one's own home and providing for their needs. According to Ephesians 2, Christ meets us as weary strangers, alienated from God and one another. But in his hospitality toward us, Christ welcomes us in and makes us f…

Why is there something rather than nothing? Many people buy into the secular materialist worldview which tells us that nothing became everything by chance and that human beings are the product of countless generations of violence. To believe this is to believe that the world is fundamentally a hostile and meaningless place characterised by scarcity…

What are you boasting in? What is the thing that thrills you, gives you purpose, and gives you confidence. Paul says there are only two kinds of boasting - boasting that may look outwardly impressive but is ultimately empty, or boasting in the cross. 01-09-2024 - Lucas Durant

The Gospel puts our lives in order and helps us to restore others. It gives us a concern for God's glory to show forth in our own lives and in the lives of others. 25-08-2024 - James Hall

How do we grow in the Christian life? Paul teaches that the way we become Christians in the first place is the way we grow as Christians throughout our lives. It is as we turn to Christ in faith that the Spirit makes us fruitful. 11-08-2024 - Lucas Durant

The highest value in our modern world is freedom. We want to be free from every impediment to doing what we want. But what is true freedom? It is more than freedom from something, it is freedom for something. What is true freedom for? 04-08-2024 - Lucas Durant

God helps those who help themselves...or does he? The story of Hagar and Sarah shows that God's grace is for those who cannot help themselves. Their two sons, point to two religions, with two results. 28-07-2024 - Lucas Durant

You know people who are struggling, and you want to be an agent for change in their lives. But how? In this text, Paul explains the kind of gospel ministry that changes people. 21-07-2024 - Lucas Durant

Who inherits all the blessings of God? Is it on the basis of our performance or God's promise? Paul argues that we must check the exact terms of the will. 07-07-2024 - Lucas Durant

Paul’s opponents tried to convince the Galatians to go back to a more proven method of getting right with God. But in this section Paul gives four proofs that faith in Christ is (and always was) the only way.

How do people get right with God and receive his approval? By our own efforts or by the work of another? The answer we give to that question will impact our entire way of life. 23-06-2024 - Lucas Durant

The gospel of Jesus Christ is not of human origin, but directly revealed by God. For this reason it can radically change lives and bring unity across great differences. 16-06-2024 - Lucas Durant

There is only one Gospel, but many counterfeits. The god-given message at the heart of the Christian faith is about rescue through the death of Jesus Christ. It is a gift, not a grind. Don't be deceived. 09-06-2024 - Lucas Durant

As Moses brings his final sermon to a close, he calls the people of God to action. Relationship with God is very near to us, we need only make a simple choice. 02-06-2024 - Lucas Durant

A Christian's relationship with God is both personal and collective. Moses shows how God's people are connected to one another across time and space, and he charges us to look after each other so that we might all enjoy God's blessings. 19-05-2024 - Kristian Odebjer

Sometimes Christians know what they have been saved from, but they fail to see what they have been saved for. Here we find a 5-fold programme for life-long discipleship and the motivation to live it out. 12-05-2024 - Lucas Durant

Moses tells us that God leads his beloved people into the wilderness with purpose. What could justify the hardships and suffering? 05-05-2024 - Lucas Durant

The greatest commandment, the one from which the rest of the law follows, is to whole-heartedly love God. Moses helps God's people look ahead to an uncertain future, and encourages them to consider the implications of maintaining and defending their love for God. But in the end, he points us to our only hope - God's steadfast love for us. 28-04-202…

The Ten Commandments are god-given rules which reveal God's nature and our own. They are for our good and we break them at our peril. But God knows we will break them and he has made provision for our need. 21-04-2024 - Lucas Durant

Moses tells us that God's people today can know God by experience and to enjoy intimacy with him. The key is to go to where his presence is found - his word. But, he says, we must be very careful not to be enticed by counterfeits. 14-04-2024 - Lucas Durant

Deuteronomy is the final words of Moses' to God's people as they stand on the brink of entering the promised land. But they had been here before, 40 years ago. Why had it taken so long for them to finally enter into the good land God had prepared for them? The problem was the foolish human heart. God has a fool-proof solution. 07-04-2024 - Lucas Du…

The message of the Christian faith is good news that implicates all people, including you. Jesus is Lord of All, he is judge of all, and he offers forgiveness to all. These tremendous claims are backed up by publicly-attested evidence that is open to all. 31-03-2024 - Lucas Durant

The way that Jesus arrived in Jerusalem tells us everything we need to know - he is the humble king who fulfils the scriptures, the victorious king who comes to save, and the unsettling king who is rejected. 24-03-2024 - Lucas Durant

We live in a society obsessed with wealth, but Jesus says life does not consist in the abundance of possessions. How can we use wealth wisely, when all we see around us is foolishness? Learn to be rich toward God. 17-03-2024 - Lucas Durant

Jesus tells us that there is one necessary thing for every disciple. Just one! In a culture overburdened and carried away with multi-tasking, Jesus is an advocate for mono-tasking. 10-03-2024 - Lucas Durant